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In reply to the discussion: When you stay home or vote third party, THIS is what happens. Make a different choice next time. [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)Last I heard the Framers were dead. The system was only ratified by 1071 white guys back in 1789. Yet in the age of modern democracies we still feel compelled to be hostage to the politics of 1789? This is curious given that the FRAMERS recognized the Articles Of Confederation could not be salvaged that they worked to abolish what then was the law of the land... a perpetual union which all states had to abide by. It's time we had the same intellectual courage to confront a system that was designed to protect slavery and is failing to provide morally legitimate government. But the reality is we've all been inculcated into the Civic Religion that we mere mortals dare not question or critique the system. So Dems live in constant cognitive dissonance that they believe in democracy even as they seek to thwart it. In this regard even most progressive Dems are ultra conservative.